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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Barbara Bush

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
BARBARA BUSH

America Important Learning
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSH

Bad Boys Right Son
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
BARBARA BUSH

Interesting Political Trying
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSH

Able Garden Want
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSH

Conventions Opinion Platform
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent People Women
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
BARBARA BUSH

Generosity Giving Memorable
Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Family Mother
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
BARBARA BUSH

Dream Race Society
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
BARBARA BUSH

Controversial Cost Government
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Mom Mother
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Inspirational Mean
Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
BARBARA BUSH

Good Judgement Luck People
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSH

Boys Handful Trust Me
As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
BARBARA BUSH

Golf Husband Two

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